o served him
as a page, following him on horseback to carry his spare weapons.
This child was idolized by its mother; just as they set out on the
expedition, she had entrusted her son to Prince Djalma's care, saying,
with a stoicism worthy of antiquity, "Let him be your brother." "He
shall be my brother," had replied the prince. In the height of a
disastrous defeat, the child is severely wounded, and his horse killed;
the prince, at peril of his life, notwithstanding the perception of a
forced retreat, disengages him, and places him on the croup of his own
horse; they are pursued; a musket-ball strikes their steed, who is just
able to reach a jungle, in the midst of which, after some vain efforts,
he falls exhausted. The child is unable to walk, but the prince carries
him in his arms, and hides with him in the thickest part of the jungle.
The English arrive, and begin their search; but the two victims escape.
After a night and a day of marches, counter-marches, stratagems,
fatigues, unheard-of perils, the prince, still, carrying the child, one
of whose legs is broken, arrives at his father's camp, and says, with
the utmost simplicity, "I had promised his mother that I would act a
brother's part by him--and I have done so."'

"That is admirable!" cried the count.

"Go on--pray go on!" said Adrienne, drying a tear, without removing
her eyes from the bas-relief, which she continued to contemplate with
growing adoration.

The count continued: "'Another time, Prince Djalma, followed by two
black slaves, went, before sunrise, to a very wild spot, to seize a
couple of tiger cubs only a few days old. The den had been previously
discovered. The two old tigers were still abroad. One of the blacks
entered the den by a narrow aperture; the other, aided by Djalma,
cut down a tolerably large tree, to prepare a trap for one of the old
tigers. On the side of the aperture, the cavern was exceedingly steep.
The prince mounted to the top of it with agility, to set his trap, with
the aid of the other black. Suddenly, a dreadful roar was heard; and, in
a few bounds, the tigress, returning from the chase, reached the opening
of the den. The black who was laying the trap with the prince had his
skull fractured by her bite; the tree, falling across the entrance,
prevented the female from penetrating the cavern, and at the same time
stopped the exit of the black who had seized the cubs.

"'About twenty feet higher, upon a ledge of rock, the